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Sadie's Montana volume 3
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Sadie may be married now, but she's as spirited as ever, and her life is no less tame. In fact, soon after she and Mark are settled into their new home together, she's visited by three FBI agents who question her. Before they leave, they warn Sadie that her beloved horse, Paris, is highly valuable, and that she and Mark may be in grave danger because of Paris. That news, on top of Mark's unexpected black moods, leaves Sadie sometimes wishing she could...
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Amish horse volume 01
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A teenage boy, struggling with his identity, reluctantly leaves his modern city-life behind and enters the slow-paced mysterious world of the Amish.
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"Becky Esh has lots of spunk. Never mind that she's Amish, she regularly confronts authority figures. Her beautiful singing touches those who hear her so deeply that even men cry. Overweight at sixteen, Becky is frustrated by her inability to lose weight and anxious about finding love. An opportunity arrives to leave her Wisconsin home and care for her ailing grandparents in Pennsylvania. But at the Christmas Eve party for the Amish young people,...
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Dakota (Linda Byler) volume 3
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Hannah has put everything into building up her family's homestead in North Dakota. Despite the Great Depression, unpredictable weather, and unforgiving landscape, she and her new husband Jerry stay on even after their Amish friends and family move back east. When a plague of grasshoppers destroys every last morsel of vegetation after yet another drought, Hannah and Jerry return to the fertile soil of Pennsylvania, where life will be safe and predictable....
7) The Price
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The Price is a sequel to Angels Over Waslala and Angels in the Night. In Nicaragua, life is primitive. Drugs, alcohol, and thievery are a way of life. The Yoders experienced the dark side of life as they sought to share the Lord Jesus with these beautiful people trapped in the grip of vice and its consequences. They confronted this evil by demonstrating the love of Christ. Many times life after such experiences goes unrecorded. Not so with several...
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Mennonites in the World War (Non-Resistance Under Test) is a historical work by Jonas Smucker Hartzler, American Mennonite minister and teacher. The Mennonites are members of certain Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496-1561) of Friesland. The author initially provides an insight in the early history of the Mennonite Church and their involvement in other wars, previous to the...
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"The Amish, one of America's most intriguing peoples, have survived for 300 years! While much has been written on the Amish, little has appeared about their history. This newly revised and updated book brings together in one volume a thorough history of the Amish people. From their beginnings in Europe through their settlement in North America, the Amish have struggled to maintain their beliefs and traditions in often hostile settings. Atlantic crossings,...
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A rare memoir of growing up Old Order Mennonite. Rolling Down Black Stockings is a personal recollection of Esther Royer Ayers's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is as much a search for identity and a longing for a mother's love as it is a tale about a totalitarian culture that led to her departure from the Old Order Mennonite religion. This poignant story is told in three books: book 1 describes her...
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Primary sources reveal that despite severe persecution and expulsion, an underground Anabaptist movement continued to flourish in its birthplace, Switzerland.
The story of Anabaptist origins in Switzerland is well known. By contrast, the life and thought of the Anabaptists who continued to live in Switzerland over the last two-thirds of the sixteenth century has remained in relative obscurity. One reason for this is that Swiss Anabaptists after 1530...
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Writings compiled in the sixteenth century provide a glimpse into the spiritual life of one fellowship during the Radical Reformation.
Scholars have been fascinated by Pilgram Marpeck and his circle since the rediscovery of the long-lost legacy of their writings, and that interest has not abated. This volume offers another part of that legacy to English-speaking readers, not only scholars but also inquiring general readers who might find theological...
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The volume brings together early statements of belief from across the Radical Reformation.
A representative collection of confessions produced by Anabaptist groups from 1527 to 1660. Included are confessions from the Swiss Brethren, the Marpeck circle, the Rhinelanders, and various Mennonite communities in the north. This collection attends to the earliest phase of Anabaptist and Mennonite confessional writing in Europe, laying bare the foundations...
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Rural communities depend on the health of the agrarian cultures that compose them. These cultures grow out of the symbiotic relationship between a particular landscape and the human community that lives on and uses the land.
Agrarian cultures had their origin in the development of agriculture and gave birth to the civilizations and empires of history. Based on the exercise of hierarchical power characteristic of their nature, empires and civilizations...
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The biblical foundations of a Christian communal movement that has stood the test of five centuries.
While in prison from 1540 to 1542, Riedemann wrote to the Lutheran ruler, Philip of Hesse, explaining the Hutterite goal of a renewed community and dispelling popular misconceptions. The Hutterites quickly accepted Riedemann's confession as their own.
Riedemann creatively weaves together a fresh reading of the Bible with the classical creeds, producing...
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Discover the writings of a leader in the Radical Reformation who sparred with Martin Luther, calling for change "from below."
Although he was not an Anabaptist, the life and thought of Radical Reformer Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (1486-1541) had a strong influence on the Anabaptist movement. In 1534 he joined the faculty at the University of Basel. A professor of biblical studies at Wittenberg, Carlstadt became involved in radical changes that...
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This early Anabaptist theologian stood up to the ruling powers, calling for freedom of religion and separation of church and state.
During the sixteenth century's tumultuous years of religious reformation and revolution, Pilgram Marpeck consistently but discreetly stood up to the ruling powers, calling for freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Coming from a background of wealth and education, he engaged in the major theological...
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The complete works of one of the most significant theologians of the Reformation.
This book contains the complete writings of Balthasar Hubmaier, including his discussion of three marks of a true church: water baptism of adults, the Lord's Supper, and fraternal admonition.
This is the fifth volume in the Classics of the Radical Reformation, a series of Anabaptist and Free Church documents translated and annotated under the direction of the Institute...
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This anthology provides the best introduction to the core beliefs and foundational principles of Anabaptism.
This comprehensive book compiles the writings and statements of thirty-seven sixteenth-century Anabaptists. Selections are arranged under topics such as baptism, the church, nonresistance, Jesus the Word, government, the cross, suffering, discipleship, and relations to other Christians.
This is the third volume in the Classics of the Radical...
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